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  • Waking Up During the Night Used to Be Normal

    Waking Up During the Night Used to Be Normal0

    For many people today, waking up in the middle of the night is incredibly frustrating, stressful, and is often labeled as insomnia. But apparently, for people in the past, it was part of their normal routine. As Business Insider reports (using excerpts from Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep), Virginia Tech historian Roger Ekrich

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  • Pew Releases List of “Most Striking Findings” in 2015

    Pew Releases List of “Most Striking Findings” in 20150

    The Pew Research Center studies the trends that shape our world. They took a look back at 2015 and compiled their most striking findings. Here’s a list of 10 of their findings we think you may find interesting:   1. “Just 19% of Americans say they can trust the federal government always or most of

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  • Obamacare Spurring a Return to Health Care Co-ops

    Obamacare Spurring a Return to Health Care Co-ops0

    With the arrival of January 1st, many Americans are experiencing more than the turn of the New Year; they’re also experiencing major hikes in their insurance premiums. As Slate’s Helaine Olen puts it, “The bill for the health care expansion is coming due … [and] more than a few are likely to be annoyed.” But

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  • What American Education Has in Common with the Dark Ages

    What American Education Has in Common with the Dark Ages0

    The period of the “Dark Ages” is synonymous with cultural deterioration in the West. It is typically applied to those centuries following the fall of the Roman Empire at the end of the 5th century, and is regarded as a time when education dramatically declined. In his classic Education and Culture in the Barbarian West,

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  • Sociologist: “The World is More Religious Than It Has Ever Been”

    Sociologist: “The World is More Religious Than It Has Ever Been”0

    • January 4, 2016

    Many of us assume that the world is increasingly secular and decreasingly religious. But according to sociologist Rodney Stark, that’s just not true. His latest book, The Triumph of Faith: Why the World Is More Religious than Ever, begins with the following claim: “The world is more religious than it has ever been. Around the

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  • Are Many Women Today Doing Two Full-Time Jobs?

    Are Many Women Today Doing Two Full-Time Jobs?0

    It’s no secret that working mothers have become the norm in America. Just last week, Pew Research reported that only 14% of children live in a home with a married working father and a stay-at-home-mother. Yet even as working mothers have become the norm, many women report feeling overly rushed and are dissatisfied with the

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